Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez just anounced $25.2 million funding a safer connection between Utopia Parkway and Little Bay Park. This previously identified improvement will extend the Eastern Queens Greenway along Utopia from Cryders to the Cross Island. The current configuration is very dangerous, putting pedestrians and cyclists in conflict with the parkway off ramp. Although we… Read More Minor Improvements to Utopia Parkway
More than half of the children killed in the last two years were killed in Queens. Flushing, one of Queens’ most bustling neighborhoods, has seen the most pedestrian fatalities in the last decade of anywhere in New York City. In just a few short days, we’ve lost members of our communities in Bayside, East Elmhurst,… Read More Emergency Queens Children’s March for Safe Streets
Saturday, March 30 11am – 2pm Kissena Boulevard & Rose Avenue About this event Join us to celebrate and enjoy our newest protected bike lanes in Bayside and Oakland Gardens! These lanes connect homes, parks, schools, and businesses. Meetup at Kissena Blvd & Rose Avenue The group ride will be ~12 miles at a leisurely… Read More Eastern Queens Celebration Ride!
Our friends at Queens Social Ride tell us that again Shore Towers is illegally cutting off public access along the waterfront greenway. As you may remember, Shore Towers have set up a fence and gate where they lock the public from accessing public space, so their rich residents have exclusive access to the space. There… Read More Tell Shore Towers To Stop Stealing from Cyclists and Pedestrians
Our friends at Guardians of Flushing Bay are advertising an event too good to be missed. Daylight Flushing Creek is something Eastern Queens Greenway has talked about for over many years. Having a beautiful creek through areas like Kissena Park and Kissena Corridor Park would be wonderful destinations and could help decrease the terrible flooding… Read More Bringing Water to Light: An Artist Workshop Series
The Queens Social Ride just held it’s 100th journey. Come join them for their next ride as they explore Queens at a slow, easy pace.… Read More 100th Queens Social Ride
Are you free tomorrow night? How about Tuesday evening? Tell our elected officials we’d like to have safe connections between our communities and our parks be a priority in the development of any plan for Creedmoor. As you know, we’ve been working for nearly 10 years to try and make it easier to get past… Read More The Politicians are Listening, Tell Them To Build A Greenway By Creedmoor
Significant portions of the New York City Greenway System remain unfinished. Our organizations (Eastern Queens Greenway & Motor Parkway East) as well as other members of the #Greenways4NYC Coalition wrote letters of support to the US DOT so that the agencies could get funding to conduct a Destination Greenways like process of community input so that plans are in place that can then be funded. … Read More US DOT announced that NYC DOT, Parks, & EDC won a $7.25M to expand Greenways
At the intersection of 238th Street and 128th Avenue a cyclist was just killed. Now you have the opportunity to fight for some eastern queens protected bike lanes to start to change the culture that lead to their death.… Read More A cyclist was just killed in Eastern Queens & what you can do on Wed the 15th to stop the violence
Please join us for the inaugural Bayside Family Bike Ride! The ride will begin at 58th avenue and Underhill Avenue in Kissena Corridor park, and will proceed along the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway to the Alley Pond Adventure Course and back.… Read More Bayside Family Bike Ride, 2022
We’re so happy with the momentum around the Eastern Queens Greenway, from streetblog’s focus on the previous attempts to connect the greenway, to QNS.com’s article covering Destination:Greenways! Most importantly, our local politicians are onboard and willing to put their money where their mouth is. Since $200 million has been dedicated to building the upstate Empire… Read More 39 Senators and Assembly Members Ask for $200 Million for Greenways
On February 8th, 2022 the Parks Department released it’s design plan for the Eastern Queens Greenway rehabilitation. Now we need our local politicians to look at the cost estimates and make this happen. … Read More Everything you need to know about the Park’s Department new Greenway Plan for Eastern Queens (including how to help)
The full Board of Community Board 11 Queens voted last night, unanimously approving a network of protected bike lanes in Eastern Queens.… Read More CB11 Queens Unanimously Votes for a Protected Bike Lane Network
The Transportation Committee of Community Board 11 wants to ask the DoT for a series of protected bike lanes. They need to full Board to vote on it on January 3rd, and we need your help to make sure it passes. Here is a petition that you can help share over social media to spread… Read More Big Protected Bike Lane Plan for Eastern Queens if You Help Us Move Quick
The EQGW Design Team has done it again, creating an amazing story-map of one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in our neighborhood.… Read More The New Greenway Storymap Will Blow Your Socks Off
Our organization was founded years ago with a dedicated focus, to complete the Greenway across Eastern Queens. This project currently has a significant of momentum (and some money behind it) but we need your help to push the planners to make sure it’s implemented correctly. NYC Parks and NYC DoT listened to a massive amount… Read More Destination:Greenways! Needs Your Input
A request to turn Utopia Parkway into a complete street has been unanimously approved by the full Community Board 11 board on Monday March 1st and now go to the Department of Transportation.… Read More Utopia Complete Street Request Sent to DoT
On Monday, March 1 at 7:30pm Community Board 11 in Queens will hear a motion for a study of a complete street on Utopia Parkway. Utopia Parkway is an important north-south corridor in Northeast Queens, serving recreational areas like Peck Park, Little Bay Park and the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway, as well as educational institutions like PS 209, Francis Lewis HS, and St. John’s University. Hundreds of cyclists, pedestrians and drivers use the route every day, and unfortunately Utopia Parkway isn’t safe: during a recent 12-month period, the stretch between the Cross Island Parkway and the Grand Central Parkway witnessed 283 car crashes, resulting in 81 injuries and one fatality. Complete streets have a proven record of improving street safety for all road users.
… Read More Help Bring Safety Improvements to Utopia Parkway!
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Planning Bureau has just released their Draft Statewide Greenway Trails Plan. … Read More Draft Statewide Greenway Trails Plan
If you weren’t able to come to the Parks/DoT meeting on greenways/protected bike lanes, make sure that your opinion share your perspective right now.… Read More Enjoy our Parks in Person or Help Improve Them From Home
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